TOPIC: Systems of Care

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Introductory Packets

• Least Intervention Needed: Toward Appropriate Inclusion of Students with Special Needs
• Affect and Mood Problems in School Aged Youth
• Conduct and Behavior Problems in School Aged Youth

Practice Notes

• Developing Systems at a School for Problem Identification, Triage, Referral, and Management of Care

Training

• Case Management in the School Context
• Student & Family Assistance Programs & Services to Address Barriers to Learning

Guides to Practice

• Policymakers' Guide to Restructuring Student Support Resources to Address Barriers to Learning
• Common Psychosocial Problems of School Aged Youth: Developmental Variations, Problems, Disorders and Perspectives for Prevention and Treatment

Reports

• Mental Health in Schools: Guidelines, Models, Resources, & Policy Considerations

Continuing Education

• Mental Health in Schools: New Roles for School Nurses

Newsletter

• Labeling Troubled Youth: The Name Game
• Lessons Learned: Systems of Care, Systems of Early Intervention, Systems of Prevention
• Connecting Counseling, Psychological, & Social Support Programs to School Reform

Resource Aid Packet

• Students and Psychotropic Medication: The School's Role

School-Community Partnerships

• School-Community Partnerships: A Guide

Technical Assistance Sampler

• Behavioral Initiatives in Broad Perspective

Technical Aid

• School-Based Client Consultation, Referral, and Management of Care

Articles

• H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (1998). Beyond Placement in the Least Restrictive Environment : The Concept of Least Intervention Needed and the Need for Continuum of Community-school Programs/Services (A prepared for a forum sponsored by the National Association of State Director of Special Education.)
• H. S. Adelman (1995). "Clinical Psychology: Beyond psychopathology an clinical interventions." In: Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 2: 28-44.
• Adelman, H.S., & Taylor, L. (2004). "Mental health in schools: A shared agenda." Report on Emotional & Behavioral Disorder in Youth, 4(3).
• H. S. Adelman & L. Taylor (1999).Mental health in schools and system restructuring." In: Clinical Psychology Review, 19(2): 137-163.
• by H. S. Adelman & L. Taylor (1998). "Mental health in schools: Moving forward" In: School Psychology Review, 27(2): 175-190.
• H. S. Adelman, L. Taylor, B. Bradley, & K. D. Lewis (1997). "Mental health in schools: Expanded opportunities for school nurses."In: Journal of School Nursing, 13(3): 6-12.
• L. Taylor & H. S. Adelman (1996)."Mental health in the schools: Promising directions for practice." In: Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews, 7: 1-15.
• H. S. Adelman (1996). "Restructuring education support services and integrating community resources: Beyond the full service school model." In: School Psychology Review, 25: 431-445.
• H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (2000)."Shaping the future of mental health in schools" In: Psychology in the Schools, 37(1): 49-60.
• L. Taylor & H. S. Adelman (1998). "A policy and practice framework to guide school-community connections." In: Rural Special Education Quarterly, 17(3/4): 62-70.
• L.Taylor & H. S. Adelman (2000)."Connecting schools, families, and communities" In: Professional School Counseling, 3(5): 298-307.
• L. Taylor & H. S. Adelman (1998). "Confidentiality:  Competing principles, inevitable dilemmas." In: Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 9: 267-275.
• H. S. Adelman & L. Taylor (1997)."System reform to address barriers to learning: Beyond school-linked services and full service schools" In: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 67(3): 408-421.
• L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (2000). Toward Ending the Marginalization of Mental Health in Schools. Journal of School Health, 70, 210-215.

Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet

• About Systems of Care
• "Accountability and Quality Assurance in Managed Care Systems" (2003) M. Armstrong. Health Care Reform Training Project: Promising Approaches for Behavioral health Services to Children and Adolescents and Their Families in Managed Care System
• Annual Report to Congress on the Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program
• Care Coordination: Integrating Health and Related Systems of Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs (AAP Policy Statement)
• Child and Adolescent Level of Care Utilization System
• Cultural Strengths and Challenges in Implementing a System of Care Model in American Indian Communities
• Data Trends - Inclusion in Schools: Teacher Attitudes and Expert Opinions
• Developing Community Systems of Care
• Facts About Systems of Care for Children's Mental Health
• Preparing Youth for Peer Pressure (Systems of Care)
• Roles for Youth in Systems of Care
• Systems of Care for Children
• Systems of Care: Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health: 1) Wraparound: Stories from the Field; 2) Learning from Families: Identifying Service Strategies for Success; and 3) Promising Practices in Early Childhood Mental Health.
• Systems of Care (AACAP: American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)
• Systems of Care (CMHS: The Center for Mental Health Services)
• Taking charge: an introductory guide to choosing the most effective services for the mental, behavioral, and emotional health of youth within a System of Care (2006)
• Systems of Care for Children's Mental Health Book Series
• Systems of Care: Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health

• Federal Resource Center for Special Education
• National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health
• National Technical Assistance Center for State Mental Health Planning
• The Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health
• Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health

• "Describing the population of adolescents served in systems of care" by Q. Liao, B. Manteuffel, C. Paulic, & D. Sondheimer (2001). In: Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 9(1): 13-29.
• "Expenditures and sustainability in systems of care" by E. M. Foster, C. C. Kelsch, B. Kamradt, T. Sosna, & Z. Yang (2001). In: Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 9(1): 53-62.
• "Family participation in evaluating systems of care: Family, research, and service system perspectives" by T. W. Osher, W. van Kammen, & S. M. Zaro (2001). In: Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 9(1): 63-70.
• The Healthcare Cure: How Sharing Information Can Make the System Work. By Margolis, J. (2011). Prometheus Books.
• "Issues confronting effective services in systems of care" by E. M. Z. Farmer (2000). In: Children and Youth Services Review, 22(8): 627-650.
• Social & Emotional Health in Early Childhood: Building Bridges Between Services & Sytems (Systems of Care for Children's Mental Health). By D.F. Perry, R.K. Kaufmann, & J. Knitzer. 2007. Paul H Brookes Pub Co.
• The System of Care Handbook: Transforming Mental Health Services for Children, Youth, and Families (Systems of Care for Children's Mental Health). By B.A. Stroul and G.M. Blau. 2008. Paul H Brookes Pub Co.
• Work, Life, and The Mental Health System of Care: A Guide for Professionals Supporting Families of Children With Emotional or Behavioral Disorders (Systems of Care for Children's Mental Health). By J.M. Rosenzweig & E.M. Brennan. 2008. Paul H Brookes Pub Co.

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